The worst may be over for Daiane
Silva after spending more than a month in the hospital
following a bad weight cut ahead of her proposed Bellator
MMA debut.
Silva recently returned home to Brazil after spending more than a
month under medical care and is gradually making progress in her
recovery, according to an initial report from Yahoo! Sports. Silva was scheduled to compete
at
Bellator Champions Series London on Sept. 14, but was
hospitalized due to severe dehydration while trying to cut to the
featherweight limit of 146 pounds. The Brazilian fighter suffered
from kidney failure as a result and was placed into a medically
induced coma.
Manager Alexis Davis provided additional details regarding Silva’s
progress in an interview with MMAFighting.com.
“The first prognosis we had was that she could be with dialysis for
the rest of her life and it could take months for her to regain
consciousness,” Davis said. “… Out of a very sorry prognostics, she
is [now] walking, she is awake, she is off the dialysis machine.
She’s talking. She has a little bit of difficulty, it was a very,
very serious condition she came out of. She’s back in Brazil. She’s
at a rehabilitation center and we expect her to be 100 percent
recovered.”
While Silva is expected to make a full recovery, it is unclear if
she will fight again. The 29-year-old was slated to face Eman
Almudhaf at Bellator Champions Series London in what would have
been her first bout at featherweight. Silva owns a 3-0 professional
mark, but all of those fights occurred at 155 pounds.